Report: Benefits Of AI In Schools Outweighs Risks
The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings...
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum To Open Sculpture Garden
The site, just across a canal from the museum, will be designed by landscape architect Piet Blanckaert, with Foster + Partners overseeing the renovation...
Can This Man Save America’s Last High-Level Oboe-Maker?
Just playing the instrument is difficult enough; making top-quality oboes is fiendishly complicated, and breaking even while doing it is challenging enough that Laubin...
California College Of The Arts Sold To Vanderbilt University To Use As San Francisco...
“The deal, being announced Tuesday by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, marks the latest development for the Nashville, Tenn., institution, sometimes called the Harvard...
Cartoonist Scott Adams, Creator Of “Dilbert”, Is Dead At 68
“(His) popular comic strip captured the frustration of beleaguered, white-collar cubicle workers and satirized the ridiculousness of modern office culture until he was abruptly dropped...
U.S. House Votes To Fully Fund NEA, NEH, Smithsonian Despite Trump Cuts And Threats
“The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of several funding measures, including … the bill that determines the annual allocations for the NEA,...
Park Ave. Armory In New York Names Deborah Warner Artistic Director
“Off-Broadway's Park Avenue Armory has named Deborah Warner its new artistic director, with the tenure to begin immediately. The theatre and opera director succeeds...
Smithsonian Submits Materials To White House For “Ideology Review” After Funding Threat
“The Smithsonian Institution on Tuesday submitted documents to the Trump administration including digital photographs of labels, placards and other texts on display in its...
How Germans Are Repurposing Churches Where Almost Nobody Worships Anymore
The number of regular churchgoers in Germany has plunged over the past quarter-century, during which time roughly a thousand churches have been deconsecrated. Yes,...
“Mixed Reality” Theater: How You Put Together A New Play That You’re Casting With...
“You are seated, waiting for the show to begin. Through your special glasses, you can see … four actors (entering). They come close to...
Truth Social Ads For Nazi-Owned Art Spark Debate
A gallery specialising in art once owned by members of the Third Reich’s leadership, including works personally owned by Adolf Hitler, has prompted conversations...
How Do You Sustain Success As A Musician?
Unlike creators, a performer does not have the benefit of a personal product (or several) that persist over time like a symphony or novel...
What A Photograph Might Tell Us About Consciousness
When I am photographing humans, I want to hear about their lives and aspirations. I care about their aesthetic sensibilities, what they are wearing,...
How It Came To This: Inside Sasha Suda’s Firing From The Philadelphia Art Museum
Nobody currently with the museum who was interviewed for this article would agree to be named, but some former members went on the record,...
Smithsonian Replaces Trump Portrait, Removes Impeachment Text
It now contrasts with portraits of other former presidents, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, which all hang alongside...
The AI Abundance Problem
“This isn’t A.I.’s problem. This is our political system’s problem. If you get a massive increase in productivity, how does that wealth get shared...
Word Puzzle: English As A Made-Up Language
The truth is—and this may come as a surprise to some of you—the English language does not exist. English is an entirely borrowed language....
Lucinda Childs Named Resident Choreographer Of Gibney Company
The 85-year-old contemporary dance pioneer has accepted a five-year appointment with the company. She will begin with restaging her 2015 work Canto Ostinato and...
Why Are Some Of Britain’s Best Actors Appearing In This Tiny Theatre?
“I want it to be a theatre where theatre people can come and see a show and that generates a kind of warmth,” he...
Writing About Your Family In Your Novel? See You In Court!
In contemporary European literature, a book these days is often the beginning of a familial feud. With thinly disguised autobiographical accounts of family strife...
News Publishers Are Seeing AI-Summaries Replace Traffic From Search. Response? Make News More Like...
Search traffic to news sites has already plunged by a third in a single year globally, with the rise of AI overviews and chatbots,...
Composer John Luther Adams Writes About Why He Has Emigrated To Australia
“The real reason I’ve left (the U.S.) is deeper than politics: it’s the culture. The culture creates the politics. … The relentless commercialisation, rising...
The Guardian’s Chief Classical Music Critic, Andrew Clements, Has Died At 75
“Clements joined the Guardian arts team in August 1993, succeeding Edward Greenfield as the paper’s chief music critic. His appointment was clinched by a personal recommendation...
Erich von Däniken, Whose Books Spread The Idea That Aliens Established Earth’s Early Civilizations,...
“(He) rose to prominence in 1968 with the publication of … Chariots of the Gods, … (which) was followed by more than two dozen...
Savannah’s Telfair Museums Lay Off 15% Of Staff
“While the museums offered severance, the layoffs were announced without warning on a (Friday) afternoon Zoom call, according to former employees. Museum representatives (said) that the...
